In the midst of all of our Golden Globes coverage on Monday morning, somehow we forgot to mention just how spectacular last weekend’s Neil Patrick Harris hosted episode of SNL was (in particular, the Doogie Howser digital short and the Save Broadway bit). However, being dedicated viewers of the show, we are well aware that its overall quality tends to suffer when episodes air on consecutive Saturdays. So we’re making sure to keep our expectations in check for this weekend’s Rosario Dawson-Fleet Foxes show.
After multiple vehicle-related accidents, Jay Leno is back on TV with a brand new face. “You’d think there’d be a zipper here,” he said, gesturing to his iconic jawline, “but no.” Leno underwent reconstructive cosmetic surgery after getting into a gasoline fire in November 2022. “I was working on a car, and I got a face full of gasoline, and it caught fire,” Leno told Clarkson. Then be broke several bones in a motorcycle accident this January.
It’s okay, Hov. AfterJay Z’s attempt to delay his extremely convoluted “Big Pimpin’” trial was turned down, the rap mogul took the stand Wednesday for the first time. The Hollywood Reporter reports that he testified to having zero knowledge that the song even had a sample in the first place. (It does: The hook is a snippet from a song by Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi. Thanks to the some complicated rights issues, Jay and Timbaland are now being sued by Osama Fahmy, Hamdi’s nephew.
It has been a full 36 hours since Blue Ivy Carter made her debut at Lenox Hill Hospital and there is much Internet insanity to address, but we would be remiss if we did not immediately alert you to the fact that Jay-Z wrote a song for his new daughter. Even better, Blue Ivy’s melodic wails are on the song, as her first feature credit (really, the title is “Glory feat.
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“I’ve made 36 movies in 20 years and I overacted a lot in my early career. So it’s very difficult for me to look at myself in those early movies.” —Jean-Claude Van Damme [Contact Music] “Like Turtle would still be with Vince everyday, even if Vince was a garbage man. This is where you really get to see the loyalty of the show.” —Jerry Ferarra on the upcoming season of Entourage [OK!
The southern rap renaissance has several architects, but the story can’t be told without mentioning Jeezy, a dealer turned rapper who, along with producer Shawty Redd, innovated trap music and the second wave of coke rap in the early 2000s. Over chilling, Carpenter-esque dirges, and in his unique ghostly rasp, Jeezy would go into drug-trade specifics. Much of what preceded in drug rap was either a moralistic cautionary tale or lavishly materialistic.
Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck, one of the most renowned and accomplished guitarists in rock music, died January 10 at the age of 78 after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis.” In a statement, his family asked “for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.” Emerging in the 1960s as part of the British rock band the Yardbirds — an incubator for some of the greatest guitar talent in history, including Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — Beck’s ambitious spirit guided his career in the subsequent decades as the leader of his band, the Jeff Beck Group, where he experimented with elements of blues, funk, and jazz.
Jenna Ortega may have studied videos of clubbing goths for her titular role in Netflix’s Wednesday, but one onscreen goth was apparently off-limits during her preparations. In an interview with MTV News, Ortega told co-star Emma Myers that she never asked Christina Ricci for advice about playing the eldest Addams child. Ricci, who stars in Wednesday as Nevermore Academy’s dorm mom Ms. Thornhill, previously played Wednesday in The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values.
“I can guarantee that you are underestimating me.” “Guess what?” Jennifer Aniston declares to a table full of overbearing, arrogant network execs in the third episode of The Morning Show, “America loves me. And therefore I own America.” She’s not wrong. Her character, Alex Levy, is a longtime morning-show host and a darling of viewers: As the beloved face of the program, Levy leverages that adoration to get precisely what she wants, even as a phalanx of blue suits tries to put her out to pasture.
Jennifer Egan. News many will be quickly thrilled by: Brooklyn author Jennifer Egan has composed a short story revolving around a character from her 2011 Pulitzer winner A Visit From the Goon Squad. News many may be instantly worried about/fearful of/angered by: This story, an 8,500-word piece, will debut on The New Yorker’s NYerFiction Twitter account Thursday evening and be serialized over the span of ten nights, with one tweet posted per minute between the hours of 8 and 9 p.